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Nuclear Forensic Analysis, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Nuclear Forensic Analysis, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Kenton J. Moody, Patrick M. Grant, Ian D. Hutcheon
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
524 pages
20h 21m
English
CRC Press
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132 Nuclear Forensic Analysis
The production of
233
U for weapons applications has many parallels with the pro-
duction
of Pu. Irradiations tend to be of short duration at high ux to minimize
the buildup of undesirable U isotopes (including
232
U). A cooling period is required
before
233
U can be recovered from the source material: it is necessary to permit
27-day
233
Pa decay to
233
U before chemical processing. And criticality safety limits
the batch size of the nal product in any reprocessing operation.
It
has been demonstrated that Th-based fuels can be used in LWRs, giving a
signicantly better conversion ratio
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